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Irvine Welsh

    27 settembre 1958

    Irvine Welsh scava negli aspetti più oscuri della natura umana e dell'uso di droghe, spesso con una rappresentazione cruda della vita ai margini della società. I suoi romanzi, ambientati costantemente nella sua nativa Scozia, presentano antieroi, piccoli criminali e hooligans. Nonostante le loro azioni moralmente discutibili, Welsh infonde magistralmente a questi personaggi una toccante umanità che li rende avvincenti. La sua prosa distintiva, frequentemente scritta nel suo dialetto nativo di Edinburgh Scots, offre un'esperienza di lettura impegnativa ma autentica e potente.

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    • Resolution

      • 416pagine
      • 15 ore di lettura

      Available for pre-order now From #1 Sunday Times bestseller Irvine Welsh, the brand new novel in the CRIME series featuring former detective Ray LennoxOLD TRUTHS HAVE NEW CONSEQUENCESRay Lennox is determined to move on from his darkest days. The maverick former detective has left Edinburgh for a fresh start in Brighton. Soon, his fixations and addictions have been replaced with quiet evenings and a rigorous fitness regime.Then Lennox meets Mathew Cardingworth. Rich, smooth-talking and immaculately dressed, he presents himself as a successful, and respectable, property developer. Yet their encounter reawakens memories that have haunted Lennox for decades, sending him into a spiral of confusion and rage.Lennox has no choice - he must confront the events of his childhood. But the more he identifies the links between Cardingworth, the disappearance of a group of foster care boys and the violence of his past, the more he finds himself asking:What will he sacrifice to achieve resolution at last?

      Resolution2024
      3,8
    • The highly-anticipated second instalment in the CRIME trilogy, now a hit TV Series Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Media. But not this time: I repeat, he is not writing this story." Ritchie Gulliver MP is dead. Castrated and left to bleed in an empty Leith warehouse. Vicious, racist and corrupt, many thought he had it coming. But nobody could have predicted this. After the life Gulliver has led, the suspects are many: corporate rivals, political opponents, the countless groups he's offended. And the vulnerable and marginalised, who bore the brunt of his cruelty - those without a voice, without a choice, without a chance. As Detective Ray Lennox unravels the truth, and the list of brutal attacks grows, he must put his personal feelings aside. But one question refuses to go away... Who are the real victims here? *A 2022 Book to Look Forward To in the Evening Standard*

      The Long Knives2022
      3,7
    • The Seal Club

      • 304pagine
      • 11 ore di lettura

      The Seal Club is a three-novella collection by the authors Alan Warner, Irvine Welsh and John King, three stories that capture their ongoing interests and concerns, stories that reflect bodies of work that started with Morvern Callar, Trainspotting and The Football Factory - all best-sellers, all turned into high-profile films.

      The Seal Club2020
      4,1
    • Kill Your Friends: Kill 'Em All

      • 352pagine
      • 13 ore di lettura

      But it's also a proper novel about the Trumpian era, of the reality TV era, the fake news era.

      Kill Your Friends: Kill 'Em All2019
      4,1
    • Rave

      • 128pagine
      • 5 ore di lettura

      Irvine Welsh, 'poet laureate of the chemical generation', exposes the seamy underbelly of rave's utopian dream. Lloyd, our permanently pilled-up protagonist, pushes his weekends to breaking point and beyond in this frazzled trip through Scottish clubland. He experiences the vertiginous uppers and downers of the Second Summer of Love, dabbles in a…

      Rave2018
    • Alte Messer schneiden gut Jim Francis hat endlich seinen Frieden gefunden. Zusammen mit seiner Frau und den beiden Töchtern führt er ein beschauliches Leben unter der Sonne Kaliforniens. Nichts mehr deutet darauf hin, dass er einst ein berüchtigter Straftäter war. Doch dann wird sein Sohn aus erster Ehe ermordet. Um der Beerdigung beizuwohnen, reist Jim noch einmal in die Stadt, die er nie wieder betreten wollte. Und auf Edinburghs Straßen flüstern die Leute: Franco Begbie ist zurück ...

      Kurzer Abstecher2017
      4,7